Moreover, as the approved of my dead mother, M.de la Feste has a sort of autocratic power with my father, who holds it unkind to her memory to have an opinion about him.

I, feeling it my duty, asked M.de la Feste at the last moment about the engagement, in a voice I could not keep firm.
'Since the death of your mother all has been indefinite--all!' he said gloomily.

That was the whole.

Possibly, Wherryborne Rectory may see him no more.
June 7 .-- M.

de la Feste has written--one letter to her, one to me.